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Buildings along a lake filled by heavy rainfall in the desert town of Merzouga on October 2, 2024. - AP The reflections of the town’s palm trees now shimmer across the expanse of a new lagoon ...
These images, captured by #VIIRS onboard the #NOAA21 satellite on Aug. 30 and Sept. 9, 2024, use enhanced color to highlight rain accumulation in the Sahara Desert.
The Persian Gulf region is known for its hot and dry weather, though heavy rains causing flooding have also occurred with greater regularity in recent years. [5] [6] Britain's Royal Meteorological Society stated that the likely cause is a mesoscale convective system. [7]
On October 14, 2024, rare flooding due to intense and abundant rainfall created and renewed lakes around the town. [2] [3] Extremely rare episodes, but they give an idea of how in the future our planet could bring the sahara desert back to being fertile and rich in water as it was in the past about 9,000 years ago. [4]
Men bring down the mudbrick wall of a house to act as a make-shift levee amidst flooding in the area of Messawi near Meroe in Sudan's Northern State on August 27, 2024. - AFP/Getty Images
The first documented suggestion for flooding large parts of the Sahara desert was by French geographer François Élie Roudaire whose proposal inspired the writer Jules Verne's final book Invasion of the Sea. Plans to use the Qattara Depression for the generation of electricity reportedly date back to 1912 from Berlin geographer Albrecht Penck. [6]
The next names on the 2024 hurricane list are Beryl and Chris. "This robust tropical wave is booking it below a belt of strong upper-level winds and dry Saharan air," Lowry said on social media.
Vegetation in seasonally-flooded areas varies with the depth and duration of seasonal flooding. Yaéré grasslands are found in frequently-flooded areas at the southern end of the lake. Characteristic plants include Echinochloa pyramidalis, Vetiveria nigritana, Oryza longistaminata, and Hyparrhenia rufa. Where seasonal flooding is shallower and ...